A. Common Boundary Value Problems

Throughout this effort, a wide variety of boundary value problems have been used to verify the various model responses investigated. Although some of these are specially tailored to a model, many of the loading paths and problems are common. As such, these repeated tests are presented and discussed here in this appendix. Emphasis is placed on the boundary conditions and kinematic descriptions that do not depend on the constitutive behavior and are therefore similar for all models. Details on how to produce these paths in a finite element problem are also discussed. For details on the various problems considered, the reader is referred to various texts [[1], [2]] on the subject.

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[1]

G. A. Holzapfel. Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: A Continuum Approach For Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2000.

[2]

W.M. Lai, D. Rubin, and E. Krempl. Introduction to Continuum Mechanics. Pergamon Press, 3rd edition, 1993.